Word: cheer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale by a score of six to nothing. There was a tremendous crowd in attendance, fully twelve thousand people occupying the grand stands and coaches. The Yale supporters predominated, but over a thousand men went down from Cambridge alone, while there was any number of graduates present to cheer for the crimson. It was a magnificently played game throughout by both sides and not until the last few minutes of the play could it be at all definitely decided who were to be the winners. Harvard played a beautiful up hill game during the second half, and while the outcome...
...large crowd collected in front of Bartlett's yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock to cheer the eleven. They went into town in a barge, and left for Springfield by the 4 o'clock train. One hundred Dartmouth students will be at Springfield today to witness the two football matches. The game in the morning between Dartmouth and Williams will probably decide the championship of the smaller colleges...
...more resolute; and that our team may feel encouraged we must make up our minds to continue in every way the hearty support which we have thus far given them. There is no surer way to urge them to victory than by showing them our confidence now. A cheer when they leave may go far toward winning Saturday's game, and systematic cheering at Springfield, better than that last Saturday is absolutely necessary...
...every graduate of the Cambridge Latin school make it a point to attend the game with the Boston Latin school on Friday at the Boston League grounds, and cheer for Cambridge...
DEAR SIRS.- It is said that once, as a workman on the cornice of a building lost his head and staggered, some one in the crowd beneath shouted "Cheer him!" The cheer was given and under its inspiration the man regained his foot hold. There were some men on Jarvis field, about half after four last Saturday who recalled this fact in bitterness of heart. Why was it that our first reverse broke the spirit of the men who were there to cheer for Harvard? But the serious part of the matter is the fact that many...